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The word stability is commonly, though somewhat loosely, used by naval architects to express not only the existence of a righting tendency in a ship inclined in still water, but also the amount of such tendency, i. e. the righting moment of the...

Proposed Day, Night, and Fog Signals for the Navy, with Brief Description of the Ardois Night System

By Ensign A. P. Niblack, U. S. N.

There seems to be some probability of a large fleet being assembled this summer to carry out a program of maneuvers on our coast, and this may be an opportune moment to call attention to certain deficiencies in our means of communicating between...

Metallurgy is the art of extracting metals from their ores and bringing them into that state of purity which is necessary for their industrial application. Electro-metallurgy is that branch of the metallurgic art in which the agency of...

An interval of more than two years has now elapsed since the news of the great hurricane at Samoa startled the whole civilized world with its sad tidings of disaster to the American and German fleets in the harbor of Apia.

The U. S. Naval Institute was established in 1873, having for its object the advancement of professional and scientific knowledge in the Navy. It now enters upon its nineteenth year of existence, trusting as heretofore for its...